Lieutenant-Colonel Gerry Chubb
28th Armoured Regiment (B.C. Regiment)

Unshaven and covered with Booth’s blood I arose … to find the Corps Commander in his enormous armoured car staring—or is the word glaring—at me … I explained the situation and his reply was “Armoured regiment are never out of communication,” with which profound remark he drove away.

(Chubb to Reg Roy quoted in 1944: the Canadians in Normandy, 276)

Born on 16 July 1913 in Rossland, British Columbia, Arthur Gerald Chubb was a graduate of RMC and Permanent Force officer in the Lord Strathcona’s Horse since 1936. He attended the war staff college at Camberley, England before assignment back to Canada in 1943 on staff with RMC. He returned overseas to be brigade major of the 4th Armoured Brigade. During the Normandy campaign, on 14 August 1944, Chubb recovered the body of Brigadier Leslie Booth from the wreckage of his destroyed tank. A week earlier Lieutenant-Colonel D.G. Worthington of the 28th Armoured Regiment had been killed and at the end of the month Chubb became acting second-in-command.

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